Sports from Three Corners

UPDATE My World Series prediction – sorry Metsies, is a step closer to fulfillment.

The World Series is finally set, in a year where baseball, and sports really, interest shrunk. Thankfully, the NBA Championship wasn’t a nail biter and the World Series is featuring a team with a chip (losing to the Astros in the World Series) on their shoulders and then some weird team from down south with a payroll which is a little higher than the profit a restaurant makes per night. The Dodgers, who are like the Lakers but with more cornerstones (when you think of a cornerstone {theoretically, of course}, you think rectangle or square, but this team’s more of an octagon, with cornerstones everywhere) and they’re the obvious favorites to win.

Think of the Yankees as the Bucks, and the Rays as the Heat. The Rays beat the Yanks and are now up against a powerhouse. Now, the Rays have Randy Arozarena who’s been on an absolute tear, and solid hitters all around. The defense isn’t really existent, apart from Kevin Kiermaier while Joey Wendle, Willy Adames are just emerging. In Game 7, the Braves got out to an early lead and stayed on top for a while.

Until the catcher, Will Smith, who looks like he’s 8 years old, got a single that knocked in two runs. Then, the Braves got on top again but not for long as Enrique Hernandez hit a rare, and I mean rare homer. Then, Cody Bellinger, who has the most varied likes and dislikes (that means 50% of baseball fans like him, 50% hate him), hit a clutch two-run homer and that did it. Now, let’s see him do that in the World Series.

Did the Atlanta Falcons get their first win, Yes? What did it cost? An Atlanta Braves loss? 

NBA Finals are History

As expected, the Lakers led by LeBron James and some guy named Anthony Davis together with the other unknown scrubs on the Lakers to a finals win. And now, I’m not going to express my opinion on the GOAT conversation, because that way half of you will leave. But, people will say that LeGoa-sorry-Bron’s fourth ring is actually the Heat’s ring because they practically gave it to him.But, then Michael Jordan’s rings should all actually be Scottie’s ring. So all of you Jordan-lovers out there, stop, and think. I don’t know why JR Smith was shirtless by the time the clock struck 12… seconds; he shouldn’t have because he’s played a total of about 7 minutes during the finals and went 1/654684981. Danny Green might as well throw up a cinderblock every time he shoots because that has a better chance of going into the bucket than a basketball. So, the Lakers might want to trade, sorry, dump off Green to a low-level team that’s willing to get worse and then get someone much much much much better. The Lakers don’t need much more help; they’re really good, except their guards, Rajon Rondo is old, Danny Green, horrible, Kentavious Caldwell Pope, flash in the pan, Alex Caruso, eh, and Quinn Cook, I’m sorry, who? Now, as I said in the last post, the Heat are going to look scary, go and check that post out. I’ll cover the NBA offseason in one of the future weeks.

Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay beat the Yankees, I don’t get it, a team of mediocre players, in a perfect world, a mediocre team, and they’re supposed to be a mediocre team. But they’re the number one seed in the East and just beat out the world-famous Yankees – mediocre enough for you? The Yankees have next year to look forward to, and every other year until the cyborg gorillas/mammoths take over the world while us Mets fans need to be happy or sad on an inning-to-inning basis. They also just beat the Astr-sorry, Asterisks in 7 games, which shouldn’t have happened, but even though Tampa Bay has 4 fans, it’s owner, the owner’s wife, the creepy brother in law who sucks up to the owner, and Steve, the janitor working at Tropicana Field for 15 years. 60,004 people tuned into the series per game, the 60,000 being people wanting the Asterisks to lose and even though only four people are fans of the Rays, America is happy because the (you know how I used to call them the ‘Stros, before they got exposed, well, let me introduce you to my new invention:) ‘Sterisks lost and some team from down south, maybe Louisiana, lost.

The A’s, who on paper, are 20x better than the Rays on any given day, got sent away by the Astros? The Astros never did have a bad team, they actually had the best team in baseball, player-wise, so not a surprise that the A’s lost, except the scandal decreased everyone’s of the Astros by 80%.

The Dodgers beat the Padres, no surprise there as I have the Dodgers winning it all. The Padres have a great team, advance it a little more with the 1.2 million great prospects they still have in the farm system, and they’re going to go on a streak like the UCLA Bruins, 88 games, and that’s in a college basketball season. Let me do some math for you, according to ncaa.com, a typical D1 basketball season is 35-40 games long if the team makes March Madness. Just a little nugget of information. Going into the last day of the Bruins’ streak, 1/19/74, they had won 218 out of 223 games dating back to the 1966-67 season. That’s 97.75%. (The stats where I got these from is the Notre Dame website, and they’re the ones that knocked off the Bruins stretch, soo, may not be accurate, but what I’m about to tell you gets crazier). In a regular season, that would equal 159 games won. With all those prospects, for 10 years or more, that would be the greatest stretch in MLB history, and, in professional sports.  Your move, San Diego Padres.

After the Marlins got a little shot of hope and beat the Cubs 2-0, the Braves went to work, winning 3-0, and are now fighting for a chance to squeeze into the World Series to (if this was last year, I’d say, ‘absolutely crush, demolish and pulverize the Rays’ but, this yearrrr, I don’t know) fight for a chance against the Rays.

Sorry for no football for two weeks, guys. Just fantasy.

For the two weeks that I have gone missing from football, I went 5-3. Crrrrrazy right?? 4-0 two weeks ago and 1-3 last week and it’s not looking great this week. But, right below, I will be talking about this week’s football and then give you a midweek update about how I did in fantasy this week.

Prayers for Dak Prescott and his family. Dak seriously injured his leg which costs him his season for sure and may not be the player he was ever again. Dak was locked in this season, leading all NFL passers going into this week by almost 200 yards.

Titans beat Texans. I have one very important question: How is Ryan Tannehill this good? How are the Titans 5-0? Why did everyone think Derrick Henry is going to be a flash in the pan? And why did I just ask four questions? Well, the answer key is… I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know and, “because there’s a lot of questions.” Derrick Henry is amazing, he pulverized me in fantasy, 212 yards, and two touchdowns, yikes. Deshaun Watson, who I have in four leagues had a great game, 335 yards, 4 touchdowns and no interceptions, how, may I ask, am I not winning in those leagues?? And, by the way, if anyone of you have any suggestions on my fantasy teams, strategies, or anything, please direct message my father on Twitter and disperse them there. Next week I will be giving my own, but I’m out dry, this year is horrible for fantasy football.

The week I traded Julio Jones for a haul of mediocre players, (sound familiar to you?), he goes crazy for 137 yards and two touchdowns. Just. My. Luck. The Falcons run game is nonexistent, Todd Gurley’s arthritis is acting up, yet again and Brian Hill can definitely not carry the load. Matt Ryan had a game of his life, 75% completion, 371 yards, and 4 touchdowns, the same Matt Ryan, the old guy along with Drew Brees that thinks the water bucket is his teammate/target and the water boy is the defender? Him? Kirk Cousins continues his strangeness, a truckload of yards, 343 in this case, and a lot of touchdowns and interceptions, 3 for both here. The rookie receivers are having field days catching the ball, crazy, really. Justin Jefferson? 166 yards and two touchdowns. Wow, just wow, taken at the end of the first round and he’s acting like Randy Moss with more speed.

Well, those are the top two games of the week, and more coming mid-week, a short post talking about fantasy and another couple of games.